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Images have revealed the amazing response from RNLI crews as they rescued four passengers and two vessels in a 12-hour mission.

A six-man-team from Skegness were paged at 1.30am on Friday, November 10, where the crew were tasked by UK Coastguard to initially locate and tow to safety, a six-metre, out of fuel yacht somewhere in the lower Wash.

While the crew were en route to the vessel, which had been located in an area known as Long Sands, the coastguard revealed there was a second vessel, a motorboat, trying to get to the first craft and it was also now in difficulty.

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As people on the first vessel saw the flares, they managed to attract the attention of the crew, who manoeuvred the lifeboat towards the yacht to find it at anchor in 80cm of water, aground on the Long Sands.

RNLI Skegness called to rescue people stranded at sea in ten-hour mission (Image: Tony Kelly/RNLI)

The crew managed to get the lifeboat close enough to allow two crew members aboard and the vessel was left moored so it could be collected later.

The two vessels being towed by lifeboat crews

The lifeboat then moved out into deeper water to look for the second troubled vessel.

A six-man team were dispatched

The footage shows crews arriving at the second vessel in the dead of night in choppy waters.

It was located by a wind farm cable guard vessel which stood by the motor boat until the Shannon lifeboat arrived alongside.